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The man who transforms grey urban spaces into green oases The last year has taught us the importance of outdoor spaces, little oases of green amid the grey expanse of the city where we can safely meet even during a pandemic. But what exactly goes into creating such a space? We caught up with someone who knows: Nigel Dunnett, professor of Planting Design, Urban Horticulture and Vegetation Technology at the University of Sheffield.  His credentials speak for themselves: he inst...

Obiano Commiserates With Prolific Writer, Chimamanda Adichie Over Loss Of Mother Obiano Commiserates With Prolific Writer, Chimamanda Adichie Over Loss Of Mother Awka – Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Mmaduaburochukwu Obiano has expressed deep sadness over the sudden death of Mrs. Grace Ifeoma Adichie, mother of the great novelist and writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The death of Mrs Adichie comes barely five months after the award-winning Nigerian novelist, Chimamanda buried her fa...

Readers reply: how can the economy grow year on year without limit – and why is this desirable? © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Busakorn Pongparnit/Getty Images © Photograph: Busakorn Pongparnit/Getty Images The only way is ... up? Richard Saunders, Dagenham Readers reply If one takes the definition of an economy as the one based on gross domestic product (GDP), it probably can’t and it certainly shouldn’t; the pursuit of perpetual growth is destroying our planet. Such a mode...

Nigeria can manufacture COVID-19 vaccines if… — Prof James Damen On Says Yaba vaccine lab evokes nostalgia to patriotic Nigerians Nigeria was among the countries in Africa that frantically produced a Yellow fever vaccine and was able to isolate the first human virus in a makeshift laboratory in Lagos. In 1925, the Rockefeller Foundation had established the West Africa Yellow Fever Commission to research yellow fever and was headquartered in Lagos with a laboratory in Yaba in Lagos and Accr...